I want to start with a moment of intellect (it took hours to find this one today):
Now that I feel enlightened I would like to share my favorite music video:
No rants until I get some followers!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Cool Shit for the Day
Van Halen got their big start opening for a 70s metal band in LA named Sorcery
Sound Familiar?
Pretty innovative for the 70s eh?
Check Out Sorcery Here
Sound Familiar?
Pretty innovative for the 70s eh?
Check Out Sorcery Here
Weekly Shredder's Rig - George Lynch in Under Lock and Key
The tone!!!
Lynch's Rig Would Be As Follows:
From the producer himself:
"We had two Marshall heads and two Laney heads, not sure which models, but one of them was a Plexi. We had cabs in three different rooms: two cabs were placed in the big room at Amigo, one connected to a Marshall, the other connected to the Laney. The Marshall was responsible for the high end part of the sound and the Laney was set to take care of the low end. There were 14 (fourteen) mics set up in that room in various psoitions around the cabinet and some further away to get some room tone. The second Laney was sent into a very dead room and had a Boss chorus pedal in front of it, set to very slight chorus. The second Marshall was sent into a small, tiled bathroom, to add a different room tone. Those 16 mics came in on the MCI 500 console mic pres. They were bussed to one bus and that bus had a UREI 530 EQ on it (best guitar EQ ever). George mentioned that he always gets a great tone with his Fostex 4track recorder when it's in total overdrive, so I asked him to bring it in. So after the 530 everything was sent to the Fostex 4track, which lived under a packing blanket under the console, so nobody would see it. The Fostex was on stunn, completely overdriven and was sent on to the 3M 32 track dig machine from there."
Assuming certain gaps in this explanation, let's break it down how we would normally:
4 Heads: 2 Marshalls and 2 Laneys for different sections of the EQ
I assume the "Plexi" head was his famed Modified Plexi.
Cabs: I assume Genz-Benz, correct me if I'm wrong
Boss Chorus Pedal
UREI 530 EQ Post Mic
and...FOSTEK 4 TRACK OVERDRIVEN!!! I think this may be bullshit...can't confirm it though.
It's also commonly known that Lynch would use an Ibanez Tube Screamer to push the preamp of his Marshall for many leads.
Lynch's Rig Would Be As Follows:
From the producer himself:
"We had two Marshall heads and two Laney heads, not sure which models, but one of them was a Plexi. We had cabs in three different rooms: two cabs were placed in the big room at Amigo, one connected to a Marshall, the other connected to the Laney. The Marshall was responsible for the high end part of the sound and the Laney was set to take care of the low end. There were 14 (fourteen) mics set up in that room in various psoitions around the cabinet and some further away to get some room tone. The second Laney was sent into a very dead room and had a Boss chorus pedal in front of it, set to very slight chorus. The second Marshall was sent into a small, tiled bathroom, to add a different room tone. Those 16 mics came in on the MCI 500 console mic pres. They were bussed to one bus and that bus had a UREI 530 EQ on it (best guitar EQ ever). George mentioned that he always gets a great tone with his Fostex 4track recorder when it's in total overdrive, so I asked him to bring it in. So after the 530 everything was sent to the Fostex 4track, which lived under a packing blanket under the console, so nobody would see it. The Fostex was on stunn, completely overdriven and was sent on to the 3M 32 track dig machine from there."
Assuming certain gaps in this explanation, let's break it down how we would normally:
4 Heads: 2 Marshalls and 2 Laneys for different sections of the EQ
I assume the "Plexi" head was his famed Modified Plexi.
Cabs: I assume Genz-Benz, correct me if I'm wrong
Boss Chorus Pedal
UREI 530 EQ Post Mic
and...FOSTEK 4 TRACK OVERDRIVEN!!! I think this may be bullshit...can't confirm it though.
It's also commonly known that Lynch would use an Ibanez Tube Screamer to push the preamp of his Marshall for many leads.
Weekly Writer's Pick
My pick of the week this week would have to be:
Dokken's Under Lock and Key
Lynch sounds and plays amazing. Vocals are catchy. Riffs are clever and good. Lynch tone = Amazing!
I've been listening to this CD for about a year now and it still hasn't gotten old.
Check Out Under Lock and Key
Dokken's Under Lock and Key
Lynch sounds and plays amazing. Vocals are catchy. Riffs are clever and good. Lynch tone = Amazing!
I've been listening to this CD for about a year now and it still hasn't gotten old.
Check Out Under Lock and Key
Metal Band of the Day (modern) - Crashdiet
Favorite Album - Rest In Sleaze
Favorite Track - Needle in Your Eye
Key Member(s) - Bryn Bennett and Alex Necochea
Cool Point - In their 4 year original material existence they've had 3 singers (Not so cool point that one of these singers died, which happened to be the only one with any slight talent)
Best Solo - Straight Outta Hell
Do They Do It Well? - Not really
Fashion (1 to 10) - 7...Some badass lookin' mother fuckers!
Comments
These guys suck. Everything sucks. I'm not even going to waste my time writing about this overrated (by modern HM fans) shit.
The first CD was about a 3.5, second BOMBED...another complete disappointment. I hate bashing bands like this...but everything that comes across my plate today seems to suck!
Trust me guys...I would much rather like your garbage than bash it. It brings no joy to me to waste my life listening to a bad CD straight through and would bring me tons of joy to find a band nowadays that does it right.
RIP Dave Leppard, their only remotely talented singer that died.
Remember to say “THEY ROCK HARD \m/” in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s
Rest in Sleaze
Favorite Track - Needle in Your Eye
Key Member(s) - Bryn Bennett and Alex Necochea
Cool Point - In their 4 year original material existence they've had 3 singers (Not so cool point that one of these singers died, which happened to be the only one with any slight talent)
Best Solo - Straight Outta Hell
Do They Do It Well? - Not really
Fashion (1 to 10) - 7...Some badass lookin' mother fuckers!
Comments
These guys suck. Everything sucks. I'm not even going to waste my time writing about this overrated (by modern HM fans) shit.
The first CD was about a 3.5, second BOMBED...another complete disappointment. I hate bashing bands like this...but everything that comes across my plate today seems to suck!
Trust me guys...I would much rather like your garbage than bash it. It brings no joy to me to waste my life listening to a bad CD straight through and would bring me tons of joy to find a band nowadays that does it right.
RIP Dave Leppard, their only remotely talented singer that died.
Remember to say “THEY ROCK HARD \m/” in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s
Rest in Sleaze
Metal Band of the Day (from the 80s) - Cinderella
Favorite Album - Night Songs
Favorite Track - Nobody's Fool or Nothin for Nothin (hard to choose)
Key Member(s) - Tom Keifer
Cool Point - Named the band after the porn movie: Cinderella
, not the children's movie.
Best Solo - Once Around the Ride
Fashion (1 to 10) - 7 Definitely kind of gay...but when you hear them...it's bad ass.
Comments
Night Songs...wow. Great CD. Solid Metal, with some of my ALL TIME favorite songs like, Nobody's Fool. As a matter of fact, the first time I heard Nobody's Fool, I had to listen to it about 100 times and never really could get it out of my head. It was my anthem and what I sang my girl friend whenever she wanted to do something I didn't...
They went more towards blues rock progressively as they grew older (and correspondingly lamer). As a matter of fact, their second to last studio album, Heartbreak Station
, sucks and sounds like a horrific country blues cross with the same Tom Keifer vocals.
Their last album, Still Climbing
, sucked...but wasn't as painful to listen to as it's predecessor.
What the hell happened?
Tom Keifer apparently loved the blues and always wanted to be a blues guitar player. Apparently that's where he went and left all of his fans behind...
I'm listening to Night Songs right now. FUCKING ROCKS!!! One of the all-time greatest CDs ever made.
Remember to say “THEY ROCK HARD \m/” in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s
Check Out Night Songs
Favorite Track - Nobody's Fool or Nothin for Nothin (hard to choose)
Key Member(s) - Tom Keifer
Cool Point - Named the band after the porn movie: Cinderella
, not the children's movie.Best Solo - Once Around the Ride
Fashion (1 to 10) - 7 Definitely kind of gay...but when you hear them...it's bad ass.
Comments
Night Songs...wow. Great CD. Solid Metal, with some of my ALL TIME favorite songs like, Nobody's Fool. As a matter of fact, the first time I heard Nobody's Fool, I had to listen to it about 100 times and never really could get it out of my head. It was my anthem and what I sang my girl friend whenever she wanted to do something I didn't...
They went more towards blues rock progressively as they grew older (and correspondingly lamer). As a matter of fact, their second to last studio album, Heartbreak Station
, sucks and sounds like a horrific country blues cross with the same Tom Keifer vocals.Their last album, Still Climbing
, sucked...but wasn't as painful to listen to as it's predecessor. What the hell happened?
Tom Keifer apparently loved the blues and always wanted to be a blues guitar player. Apparently that's where he went and left all of his fans behind...
I'm listening to Night Songs right now. FUCKING ROCKS!!! One of the all-time greatest CDs ever made.
Remember to say “THEY ROCK HARD \m/” in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s
Check Out Night Songs
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